Childhood Quotes - Page 19

Play is really the work of childhood.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children and that must be stamped out.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods. We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

I had a great childhood.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.